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Date: 25 September 2006 12:28:05
So today on my way home I was inspired to cook something with vegetables. So I stopped at the fruit shop (well it's called that but it also sells vegetables... strange really) and wandered around looking for inspiration. The first thing to catch my eye was a kumara. I briefly pondered squash but decided they were overpriced. Then I came across the lentil aisle. I'd never cooked lentils before and wondere how hard it could be... so I purchased a bag of red lentils. Then I thought garlic. And zucchini. And eggplant.
At home I had some tomatoes already. And some tomato paste.
I cooked the lentils for about 15 minutes after washing them. Google told me to do this to get rid of the dirt and stuff. Then I lightly cooked my garlic in a different pan and added my kumara and eggplant (but I chopped them first. It would have been quite funny to add them whole!). Then zucchini and tomato. Then lentils with some water. Then the tomato paste. Oh yes and tabasco sauce and paprika and a bit of pepper. And I cooked it til it was ready. And it was pretty good.
THEN I spiked dinner with lentils as well. It was a rather multicultural meal. Lamb with rogan josh sauce, spinach (or maybe bok choy... something green), capsicum and lentils. Pretty tasty though.